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Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude is unavailable, but you can change that!

Letters and Homilies for Jewish Christians is the second of three volumes extending Ben Witherington's innovative socio-rhetorical analysis of New Testament books to the latter-Pauline and non-Pauline corpora. By dividing the volumes according to the socioreligious contexts for which they were written, Witherington sheds fresh light on the documents, their provenance, character and importance. ...

The document we call Hebrews is both anonymous and written to a first-century Christian audience. The terminus ante quem for this document is the 90s, for the good reason that Hebrews 1:3–14 is clearly alluded to and drawn on in 1 Clement 36. The telling indicators that 1 Clement is directly dependent on Hebrews 1 is its quotation of Psalm 110:1 as a direct address of God to his Son as in Hebrews 1:13 and the same introductory formula in 1 Clement 36 as in Hebrews 1:5–13 (and Heb 5:5–6; 7:17, 21),
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